Quotes about Knowledge

“All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.”

“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?”

“I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.”

“Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.”

“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.”

“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.”

“Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”

“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”

“Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.”

“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.”

“Doubt grows with knowledge.”

“I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.”

“To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.”

“I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.”

“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.”

“I loved being in the film called 'Carnal Knowledge' - the one with Jack Nicholson, which was very dark but a really brilliant movie. I loved being in 'The Ritz.' 'The Ritz' I think is just hilarious. I just saw it again recently and by God, it's still funny!”

“The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.”

“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.”

“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.”

“I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.”

“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”